Lollipop Magazine

Buckcherry – 15 – Interview

September 28, 2007

An interview with singer Josh Todd and guitarist Keith Nelson

The 69 Eyes – Angels – Review

September 28, 2007

Whilst fellow Scandalnavians Turbonegro send up the ’70s glam of Alice Cooper, The 69 Eyes examine the evolution of glam to Gothic from ’60s to the ’90s.

No Use For A Name – All the Best Songs – Review

September 28, 2007

You either stuck by ’90s pop punk, grew out of it, or hopped on the “third generation of emo” bandwagon. All the Best Songs is clearly for the first category.

Mos Generator – Songs for Future Gods – Review

September 28, 2007

Thick-riffed hard rock. The guys have done time in Mindfunk, Treepeople, and Voodoo Gearshift and know which end of the guitar to tickle.

Immolation – Shadows in the Light – Review

September 28, 2007

Like Harnessing Ruin’s title track, “World Agony” wrangles the EVILNESS of Immolation’s trademark ghastly riffs into a comparatively accessible song structure.

Parappa the Rappa – Review

September 28, 2007

Back in the day, it was hard to resist the childlike drawing and animation, the happy tunes, and characters like a Rasta frog and a karate-teaching onion.

Flight Of The Conchords – The Distant Future – Review

September 28, 2007

The NZ comedy duo has been doing well with their HBO show and appearances on late night TV. This is their first EP, and the medium doesn’t do them justice.

Chris Cornell – Carry On – Review

September 28, 2007

Cornell wants to remain your Rock God, but he play it safe. Carry On is precise, polished, full of radio-friendly anthems as well as a few quirky gems.

Chris Cornell – Carry On – Interview

September 21, 2007

An Interview with Chris Cornell

Only Crime – Virulence – Review

September 21, 2007

Russ Rankin (Good Riddance) vocals, Bill Stevenson (All, Descendents) drums, Aaron Dalbec (Bane) guitar, Zach Blair (Hagfish) guitar, Doni Blair (Hagfish) bass.

Greenleaf – Agents of Ahriman – Review

September 21, 2007

Greenleaf fuse the roiling generator party bottom-end/vibe that burbled up from Kyuss and the MeteorCity label with tasteful ’70s Euro-hard attack rock.

GG Allin and the Criminal Quartet – Carnival of Excess – Review

September 21, 2007

Reish of GG Allin’s country-rock move fully remastered by Kramer to pure and beautiful effect. Odd to hear GG with this level of clarity.

Fantastic Four – Rise of the Silver Surfer – Review

September 21, 2007

Believe the hype: This game is an ugly, near-disaster that further proves the myth that games based on movies are slapdash cash-ins.

Dream Theater – Systematic Chaos – Review

September 21, 2007

Filled with chest-puffing, fist-pounding gestures of manliness… but behold! There are interesting melodies, arrangements, and a Wild West saloon piano solo.

Chthonic – Relentless Recurrence – Review

September 21, 2007

A reissue of the rising Taiwanese black metal band’s 2002 effort. Every bit as musically proficient, thematically grand, and lyrically poetic as Seediq Bale.

Bad Religion – New Maps of Hell – Review

September 21, 2007

Bad Religion have been on the up and up since guitarist/backup vocalist Brett Gurewitz returned. No surprise this is another monolith of pop punk excellence.

Everything I’m Cracked Up to Be – Review

September 10, 2007

Small-change artist, signed to major label in post-alternate rock feeding frenzy, suffers growing pains as she realizes just how major record labels work.

Virgin Black – Requiem Fortissimo – Review

September 1, 2007

I usually like Virgin Black, but this album is a regression to the “bad doom” we all endured in the early ’90s.

The Agony Scene – Get Damned – Review

September 1, 2007

11 tracks that kinda blend, but there are breakdowns to anticipate, roars to marvel at, and guitarwork to learn. Little clean singing and keyboard flourishes.

Skindred – Roots Rock Riot – Review

September 1, 2007

Skindred is like no other. Groovecore with a Rasta singer. He can scat, rap, and harmonize like the emo metal pussies without crying his eyeliner into streaks.

Ministry – The Last Sucker – Review

September 1, 2007

After the kick-ass Rio Grande Blood and Houses of the Mole, Ministry end their mighty reign with the auto-pilot effort, The Last Sucker.

Helloween – Gambling With The Devil – Review

September 1, 2007

Best Helloween album in years. Not really that much of an accomplishment, seeing as many recent albums have fallen between passable and freakin’ embarrassing.

Every Time I Die – The Big Dirty – Review

September 1, 2007

From Buffalo, NY, home of many a decent hardcore band, ETID incorporates a bit of Southern drawl, which is funny, seeing as upstate NY is far from the South.

Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today – Review

September 1, 2007

They’re British doom/drone, distortion-heavy for the sake of being distortion-heavy, and the reverbed vocals make non-hit Sabbath tunes sound chipper.

DJ? Acurack – Humanoids From The Deep – Review

September 1, 2007

I don’t know much about this shit. Drum’n’bass, uh-huh, breakbeat, yup, horror-fixation, know it. But if this is considered good or bad, man, it’s beyond me…